Leadership Award Nomination Forms

Outstanding Leader

This is awarded to a member of an organization who has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills while involved in the organization. The member has been instrumental in helping the organization work towards its mission as well as help plan and conduct successful programming.

Outstanding Leader in a Sports Club

This is awarded to a member of an organization who has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills while involved in a sports club. The member has been instrumental in helping the organization work towards its mission as well as help plan and conduct a successful season.

Outstanding Treasurer

This award recognizes the outstanding management of the group’s treasury books, reconciliation of ledgers and maintenance of the treasurer file. In addition this individual should have made efforts to increase the organization’ funds as well as obtain necessary funding properly in order to implement planned events successful.
NOTE: Nominations will NOT be accepted for this award, the recipient will be chosen by the selection committee based on performance and treasurer records. Feedback will be requested from the Finance Committee as they conduct audits of club accounts.

Outstanding Public Relations Individual

This award recognizes a student leader who has worked hard to improve his/her organization through advertising, public relations, ambassadorship, and group spirit. Nominees for this award do not necessarily have to have served as official advertising, public relations or other related titles within the organization, but rather any student who has promoted his/her group in creative and inspiring ways may be nominated. This award is open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.

Giving Tree Award

Any current faculty or staff member who is actively involved with the student body of the University of Mary Washington is eligible for this award. The faculty or staff member must be nominated by a student currently enrolled at the University of Mary Washington. The faculty/staff member’s role can be, but is not limited to, an advisor to a student organization, a student mentor, a speaker, or participant in a student organization program.
NOTE: While a faculty/staff member can be nominated every year, they can only receive the award once every four years.
CRITERIA: Nominees of the Giving Tree Award will be evaluated on the following criteria. All faculty and staff members must:

• Show dedication to enhancing the quality of student life at UMW.
• Enhance the support the growth of students and or student organizations at UMW.
• Serve as a role-model for students and a resource for the UMW community.
• Actively participate in student events.
• Act ethically and with integrity.
• Serve as an advocate for the students.
• Provide a new and significant contribution to the UMW community that has not previously existed.

AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENT PROGRAMS

PLEASE NOTE: All programs must have been open to all students.

• An individual can only nominate a single program sponsored by an organization for only ONE of the following five categories.
• For programs co-sponsored by two or more organizations, all groups are eligible for the award.
• All events must fall between 4/11/2010 through this year’s final due date.
• These awards are open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.

Outstanding Program Form

Programming Categories

Outstanding Large Scale Program
This award recognizes an organization for following its mission and purpose with planning and implementing a program, activity or service exceedingly well. The program should have had provided a positive reflection of the organization to the campus community beyond its own members.

Outstanding Small Scale Program
This award recognizes an organization for following its mission and purpose with planning and implementing a program, activity or service exceedingly well. The program should have had provided a positive reflection of the organization to the campus community beyond its own members.

Outstanding Late Night/Alternative Program
This award recognizes a program that provides a positive and creative alternative to alcohol, specifically on Friday-Saturday evenings. The program should be unique, non-traditional, differ from the organization’s usual programming, marketed effectively, and successful in terms of its impact to the campus community beyond the organization’s own members.

Outstanding Diversity Program
This award recognizes an event that takes the lead in educating the campus community on issues related to diversity. This includes but is not limited to issues pertaining to women, racial/cultural, religion, gender and sexuality. The program should be unique, creative, marketed effectively, and successful in terms of its impact to the campus community beyond the organization’s own members.

Outstanding Co-Sponsored Program
This award recognizes an event that was sponsored by at least two recognized registered student clubs. Co-sponsorship should involve far more than just financial support, and should show evidence of the organizations working together successfully to develop the program as well as share in responsibilities for implementing the event. The event should be creative, original, marketed effectively, and successful in drawing a large and varied audience of the campus community.
NOTE: If the co-sponsorship was with a department or outside organization, the program is only eligible if at least one other recognized student organization served as a co-sponsor.

Outstanding Philanthropy Program
This award recognizes an organization’s involvement in philanthropic activity that positively affects a targeted cause either locally or globally. The specific program may be held on or off campus and should relate to the organization’s mission. It is preferred that the activity had a notable impact on the organization and its members that continued throughout the year.

Outstanding Educational Program
This award recognizes an educational program that was successful in educating the campus community on a topic related to the organization’s mission in a creative and appealing way, and impacting the campus community beyond the organization’s own members.

AWARDS FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Outstanding Web Site

This award recognizes an organization’s web site for clarity, creativity, appeal, uniqueness and including updated information about the organization. It should also be in compliance with University and Activities and Programs policies and procedures. This award is open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.
NOTE: Any sites which include offensive, inappropriate or lewd material will be disqualified.

Innovation in Advertising Award

Overall Advertising: This award recognizes an organization which best exemplifies outstanding achievement in advertising and publicity. The organization must have demonstrated excellence in publicity, advertising and marketing its organization overall. Marketing materials should be tasteful, creative, original, non-traditional, eye catching, and have contributed to making the organization as a whole highly successful. Materials must reflect the mission and purpose of the organization as well as University pride/spirit.

Outstanding Event: This award recognizes advertising for a single or series of on campus events which best exemplifies outstanding achievement in advertising and publicity. The organization must have demonstrated excellence in publicity, advertising and marketing for the specific event. Marketing materials should be tasteful, creative, original, non-traditional, eye catching, and have contributed to making the event highly successful. Materials must reflect the mission and purpose of the organization as well as University pride/spirit. These awards are open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.
NOTE: All material must be for the time period of 4/11/2010 through this year’s final due date. Samples of the specific advertising (t-shirts, flyers, invites, photos etc) MUST be included with the application.

Innovation in Fundraising Award

This award recognizes an organization which best exemplifies outstanding achievement in fundraising. The organization must have demonstrated creative strategies for raising funds for a particular cause or nonprofit organization. The cause or nonprofit organization may or may not relate to the mission of the organization. This award is open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.

Outstanding Community Service

This award recognizes an organization’s involvement in a community service activity that positively impacts the targeted community. The specific program may be held on or off campus and should relate to the organization’s mission. It is preferred that the activity had a notable impact on the organization and its members that continued throughout the year. This award is open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.

 Outstanding New Club

This award is only open to student organizations who have been recognized for no more than two academic years (no earlier than September 2008), but have been able to quickly build membership and become a known presence and have a positive impact on campus through its successful marketing, activities and programs. It recognizes success in both quality and quantity of activities, as well as establishing relationships with other organizations and departments. This award is open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.
NOTE: The previous year’s award recipient is not eligible for this year.

Collaborative Partnership Award

This award recognizes campus organizations for forging collaborative relationships for the purposes of achieving their objectives successfully and making an impact on campus throughout the academic year. Actions resulting from said collaborations should exceed co-sponsoring a single program and should illustrate an ongoing relationship that benefits all organizations involved as well as the campus community. This award is open to all clubs and organizations including sports clubs.

Outstanding Overall Achievement for a Club or Organization

This award recognizes an organization for following its mission, achieving its objectives successfully and making an impact on campus throughout the academic year. The organization has stayed active through effective marketing and publicity of meetings and events, sponsoring a variety of successful programs, sustaining an active membership, and maintaining positive relationships with other organizations and departments. Actions of the organization and its members should exceed expectations.

Outstanding Overall Achievement for a Sports Club

This award recognizes an organization for following its mission, achieving its objectives successfully and making an impact on campus throughout the academic year. The organization has stayed active through effective marketing and publicity of meetings and events, sustaining an active membership, and maintaining positive relationships with other organizations and departments. Overall achievement will not be based solely on the team’s season record. Actions of the organization and its members should exceed expectations.

Procedure:

All nominations are due by Wednesday, April 10, 2013 @ midnight. Please return the nomination forms to the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service, located in the basement of Seacobeck Hall at the Washington Diner entrance or email them to the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service at: chls@umw.edu. If there are any questions, please call (540)-654-1665.

After the April 10th deadline, a committee of faculty, staff, and students will review the nominations and make their selections. All nominees and those who nominate them will be invited to a reception to be held on April 24th,2013, in Great Hall. The reception starts at 6:00 pm.